all the stories you need to know coming out of washington and around the world. first up, congress is away on august recess but some gop lawmakers are facing heat from their constituents at home. i'm going to turn to my right and hope that john king has a straight face. yes, he does. >> no, not exactly. how do i always come after these kind of things? >> i don't know. let's try to get back on track because we've lost ourselves. the tea party taking on the president's health care law. this is not new. in 2009 it was the tea party versus democrats in these ton halls that we remember very well but now it's the tea party versus members of their own party. but is this going to change minds? >> change minds probably not. i think at this point since a lot of this is about the health care bill and now the big question is there are some republicans who say risk a government shutdown, refuse to give the government any funding for obama care and if that shuts down the government, so be it. some tea party republicans say come on, it's a waste of time, we will lose politicall